Met

See also: Appendix:Variations of "met"

Translingual

Noun

Met

2. (biochemistry, IUPAC 3-letter symbol) methionine

   Alternative form: M

English

Etymology

Clipping of metropolitan.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛt/
• Homophone: met
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Proper noun

the Met

1. (London, rail transport) The London Underground Metropolitan line.

   Synonym: Metropolitan

2. (London, rail transport, historical, 1863–1933) The Metropolitan Railway.

   Synonym: Metropolitan

3. (London, law enforcement) The Metropolitan Police Service of London (MPS).

   Synonym: Metropol

   • 2024 April 11, Victoria Cook, “Westminster murder inquiry: Woman, 27, named by police”, in bbc.com‎^[1]:

     The Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) over its handling of the investigation. […] The Met said it had informed its own Directorate of Professional Standards and a "mandatory referral will be made to the IOPC in relation to the initial contact from the woman's friend".

4. (US) The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
   • 2022 September 7, Gillian Brassil, “The Real Lives of Early 20th-Century Celebrities, as Depicted in ‘Ragtime’”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine‎^[2], archived from the original on 3 November 2022:

     Freud’s itinerary in the novel hews neatly to what he and his colleagues really did on their trip to the U.S.: They visited Chinatown and Central Park and the Met. They made it down to Coney Island, though Jung and Freud’s boat ride through the Tunnel of Love seems to be a Doctorowian flight of fancy.

5. (New York, art) The current or historical Metropolitan Opera House or its opera company.

Noun

Met (plural Mets)

1. (London, informal) A Metropolitan line train.
2. (baseball) A player for the New York Mets.

Anagrams

• EMT, MTE, TEM, TME

German

Etymology

From Middle High German mëte, from Old High German mëtu, from Proto-West Germanic *medu, from Proto-Germanic *meduz, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey, mead”).

Compare Dutch mede, English mead, Danish mjød.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meːt/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Met m (strong, genitive Metes or Mets, no plural)

1. mead

   Synonym: Honigwein

   • 1903, Max Bauer, Der deutsche Durst: Methyologische Skizzen der deutschen Kulturgeschichte‎^[3]:

     Ja, der altgermanische Met war ein Tränkchen, dessen Vollgenuß man nicht so leicht vergaß. Wer den braunen, reichlich süßen Saft einmal zu sich genommen, z. B. in jenem uralten Metkeller Wiens, dem »süßen Löch'l«, der erinnert sich, auch nach Jahren noch, mit recht geteilten Gefühlen der bittersüßen Nachwirkungen, die sich mild aber doppelt äußern, ehe sie als geradezu unverwüstlicher Kater ausklingen.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of Met [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Met
genitive	eines	des	Metes, Mets
dative	einem	dem	Met, Mete1
accusative	einen	den	Met

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• Metkeller

Further reading

• “Met” in Duden online
• “Met” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache